Hellishly Hot Meals

Guali telor

A Malaysian egg curry that boasts between 20 and 30 whole dried red chilies for approximately one dozen eggs can’t be wrong.

This dish also features savory elements like lemongrass, ginger, coconut milk, and tamarind paste. Guali telor is usually served with sweet rice to ease the burn of this hellishly hot meal. You’ll need it.

Shrimp creole

The best New Orleans-style creole dishes are so hellishly hot they’ll rip your lungs out and melt your face.

Classic shrimp creole is simmered with diced tomatoes, onion, celery, bell peppers, and spiced with cayenne pepper and Tabasco sauce. Some Cajuns might add spicy sausage to the shrimp, while others will add paprika and lemongrass to enhance the effect.

Shrimp creole is delicious when it’s served over a bed of rice.

Jerk chicken

Few dishes have the fresh, bright heat of a stand-up Jamaican jerk.

Jerk is a style of cooking native to Jamaica, but used all over the Caribbean where meats are dry-rubbed with a blazing-hot spice mixture that includes Jamaican pimento, cloves, cinnamon, scallions, nutmeg, thyme, garlic, and, of course, the fiery Scotch bonnet pepper.

Jerk chicken makes our list of hellishly hot meals not only because it’s riddled with the unforgiving Scotch bonnets, but also because the charcoal over which the meat is grilled gives an incredible edge to the taste of these strong, earthy spices.

This dish is best served with some authentic Jamaican ginger beer — a nice, spicy drink of its own that will do nothing to help the burn, but it tastes fantastic.

Kung Pao chicken

One of the best known Szechuan dishes out there, Kung Pao chicken is renowned for its chili-packed punch.

The nice part about Kung Pao Chicken is that the chilies keep their heat during this ultra-quick cooking process, leaving you with a greater chance to experience the burn.

Serve over white rice, which may help to ease the pain of this hellishly hot meal.

feeling hot, hot, hot

Who would have thought that something that causes so much discomfort could be so wonderful and so good for you? Why do we love hellishly hot meals? Because they give us a good reason to wash it all down with a pint or two… or six. Besides, there’s nothing quite like watching a buddy go through his own personal hell just to finish a hellishly hot meal.